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In October 5th of 1946, coinciding with the week of celebration of the discovery of America, was become fullfilled in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the First Spirit Pan-American Congress, after great efforts of the organizes. Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Equator, United States, Honduras, Mexico, Port Rico and Uruguay had become to represent shiningly.

Two Brazilians had participated of the directive table, Dr Paulo Hecker and the colonel Pedro Delfino Ferreira, having this last one been elect president of the Congress.

Mr. Hugo Lino Nale and the Engo Jose S. Fernandez had represented the Spirit Confederation from Argentina and the Society "constancy" of Buenos Aires.

The Congress took the decision to establish the Pan-American Spirit Confederation, whose symbol would have to be the "trunk of the grapevine", chosen for Kardec to identify the Spiritism. It has therefore the CEPA a double meaning in its acronym, and thus it initiated its march route to the desirable objectives, route to the progress of the spirits ideas in America.

The certainty of the group of spirits of Argentina and Brazil promoted the adoption of a Statute that establishes a minimum program of common objectives. It prevailed, beyond the doctrinal and philosophical positions, the necessity to place the new organization, the CEPA, in service of the union task.

The CEPA initiated its walked through the promotion and the integration of the Latin American spiritism, acquiring intellectual flexibility and the moral capacity of overcoming of the circumstantial differences of interpretation, regional actions and approaches, in favor of a pluralist and universal position. However this was only a start of a thought that would being the dynamic thought of the CEPA, that would cover an ample geographic and ideological circuit for all continent. The initial thought of the CEPA would go to perfect itself and to enrich along the time.

A Confederaçao Espírita Pan-americana - CEPA - fundada em 13 de outubro de 1946, na cidade de Buenos Aires, Argentina, é uma instituiçao autônoma de caráter federativo, que representa um amplo setor do movimento espírita organizado existente no continente americano.

Their objectives are:

1. To spread the spiritism by all towns of America through the Spirit Movement organized in the Pan-American scope between the participant countries and their worldwide relations, constantly guarding by the respect of the Spirit Doctrine principles.

2. To stimulate permanent Doctrine debate, in accordance with its fundamentally evolutionary character, to update its scientific, philosophical and moral postulates to the exigencies of the moment, as well as making possible the absorption of new ideas.

3. To contribute for a good relation between the continental spirit organizations trying to unit intentions within the doctrinaire principles, direct to the ideals improvement of the union and brotherhood.

4. To organize forums for philosophical, scientific and cultural debates that integrally represent s the intentions of spreading the Spirit though causing the continental interchange of ideas between its participants respecting the regional experiences.

5. Participanting in acts of continental character made by the countries and American institutions that having by objective the scientific, philosophical and spiritual development knowlegde, directing to the evolution, not only the spirit thought, but also the moral os the individuals.

PROFILE

CEPA is pledged in externalize in all its fullness the postulates that the Doctrine established for Allan Kardec composes. In its defense and its development it is placed above of the personal or institucional relations. In accord with this master line, CEPA fights for a Doctrine:

o Kardecista because it assumes the teachings and reflections infered from the workmanship of Allan Kardec, that represents the essence and the base of the doctrinal building Spirit. Guided for the compass of the kardequiana codification, the spiritism will always keep the correct route and will follow for safe ways.

o Progressista because the spirit thoughts is an instrument for the individual and social improvement, ally to the values as: liberty, justice and equality; it provides a dynamic position, open, critic, capable to rectify concepts, as resulted of the process of change of the world.

o Livre pensadora because it invites the its integrant and people in general to enjoy, in its fullness, of the right to the free examination of all the ideas and to the exploitation of all reflection, criteria and inside and outside methods of the Spiritism.

Freedom of thoughts, liberty of speech and freedom of critic and discussions are indispensible rights, necessary conditions to an authentic spirit to be able to express itself, and in consequently rights that the CEPA guarantees to all the people and the tied societies it.

ORIGINS

The Pan-American Spirit Confederation, CEPA, appeared in America at a very important moment, in reason of the social and politicians event of the Europe and proper America.

1. The International Spirit Congress accomplishment, in September of 1934 in Barcelona, Spain, which had appeared, representing Argentina, Humberto Mariotti and Manuel S. Porteiro.

2. The deflagration of the Second World War , in 1939, that it affected the activities of the Spiritism in France, Spain and in all the countries of the Europe.

3. The destruction of the European culture, that was being buried under rubbles of its proper errors. The freedom, the greater of all rights, was hindered of being exercised.

4. The disappearance, as organized institution, of International Spirit Confederation, with headquarters in Paris, that came to accent the necessity to count with a central organization that congregated all the Spiritualists of America.

5. The idea of the Argentina Spirit Confederation, that believed to be a duty of the American spiritualists to create a Spirit Confederation of America, to mobilize the spirit thought in the formation of its proper culture.

6. The necessity to supply the emptiness left for the lack of Spanish spirit literature, therefore before Spain supplied normally magazines, books and doctrinal material to the institutions and spirits communities of the other side of the Atlantic.